It’s a four-day week, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily an easy one – which is exactly why we’re here on a Tuesday with 10 Cool Pop Songs to help you get through this post-Labor Day work week. From FINNEAS waxing nostalgic to Little Mix flaunting their attitude to Rosalia and Tokischa’s ferocious team-up, we […]

Hitmaking electro-pop producers aren’t all that different from us. Take Zedd, for example. When his busy tour schedule was suddenly grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, he did what everybody else did: He sat at home playing video games. Of course, Riot Games probably didn’t hire you to design a (literally) game-changing gun for its popular

In another highlight of his massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated Sept. 11), Kanye West charts 23 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, all of which are debuts from his new album Donda. Donda launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 309,000 equivalent album units, according to MRC Data, marking the biggest

From Debby Boone’s 1977 smash “You Light Up My Life” to, now, BTS’ “Butter,” a relatively select few smashes have led the Billboard Hot 100 chart for at least 10 weeks. How few? Just over a mere 3 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1s dating to the chart’s launch on Aug. 4, 1958, have

Camila Cabello is just one of many celebrities who consider themselves an Olivia Rodrigo fan, so much so that she took to BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge on Tuesday (Sept. 7) to cover Rodrigo’s Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single “Good 4 U” during her set. Just before performing the track, Cabello shared just how much

LONDON – Sony’s $430 million acquisition of Kobalt Music Group’s independent distribution and label division AWAL is facing further scrutiny from regulators after the U.K.’s competition watchdog found that the deal could lead to worse terms for artists. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Tuesday (Sept. 7) that the merger could stifle innovation in

On Tuesday (Sept. 7), Billboard announced it is launching a new podcast called Latin Hitmaker, which will tell the stories of the executives behind the biggest Latin artists and their hits. Hosted by Billboard’s Leila Cobo, the first episode — featuring Walter Kolm, whose company WK Entertainment manages Maluma, Wisin, and Carlos Vives, among others — will air Wednesday (Sept.

Kanye West scores his 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week with Donda, and easily the longest of his 10. Spanning 27 tracks and nearly 109 minutes, Donda is indeed the longest album to top the chart this decade, calling back to hip-hop double LPs of the late ’90s — like in 1997, when epic two-discers

As Lil Nas X prepares to welcome his bouncing baby Montero into the world, he’s giving fans some ideas for what he’d like at his baby shower. On Tuesday (Sept. 7), Lil Nas continued his pregnancy-inspired rollout of his new album by creating a fake baby registry for fans to peruse through. But instead of having

Jack Harlow, The Kid LAROI, Ozuna and Tainy are the newest additions to the performance lineup for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, the network announced on Tuesday (Sept. 7), adding to an already-impressive list of entertainers for the event. The acts will join previously announced performers Olivia Rodrigo, Shawn Mendes, Kacey Musgraves, Machine Gun